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The Era -- Day By Day
Panel five of "Mary Worth" today: "What do you mean that I'll have to pay alimony to him!"- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Thankfully, I think Alice knows how freakin' lucky she is to have found Krause - they don't make many like him. ************************************************************* Based solely on the Daily News story, LaGuardia looks petty, spiteful and imperious - all the reasons we have mayors...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,080
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Behind Office Doors from 1931 with Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Richard Cortez and Edna Murphy Behind Office Doors would be just another clunky early precode with an awkward plot, except for Mary Astor's performance. She imbues her portrayal of an über secretary with so much integrity...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,520
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Look, Chili, far be it from me to be a buttinsky, but if you keep carrying on like this, you'll never get to be Miss Rheingold." -- Jinx. "Well, if you won't take me seriously, I won't try to help you." -- Jinx. Always nice to hear from one of our favorites...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I had a similar question running through my head @St. Louis , so I'm very glad you asked yours. I was particularly wondering what they had against bobby socks, other than that the bare leg would be exposed up to the bottom of the skirt. It's funny that Lizzie noted that knee-high socks were on...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,066
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Are You Reading
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse, originally published in 1923 More a collection of short stories, with a somewhat connected narrative running through them, than a full novel, The Inimitable Jeeves is best enjoyed for its playfully satirical look at the foibles of early...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,195
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Love Letters from 1945 with Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Gladys Cooper, Robert Sully, Cecil Kellaway and Ann Richards During and immediately after World War II, with so many young men and women dealing with loss, Hollywood produced several pictures with a variety of fantasy spins on death...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,518
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"In Williamsbaaarg, yet. Ye can't throow a cobblestone oop thar that ye don' hit a bookie..." :) ******************************************************************** As you've noted several times, I could not care less about any one of the three in "Mary Worth" right now. They all deserve...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,057
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Captain Blood from 1935 with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and a strong cast of many from Warner Bros.' deep bench of talent. Errol Flynn was a versatile actor who played roles in comedy, romance and dramatic pictures, all while his personal life was a swirl of booze, sex and scandal, but...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,516
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Give Kay Williams credit for persistence. She and Gable would each sneak another marriage in before, but in 1955, Ms. Williams finally landed the King of Hollywood in a marriage that lasted until Gable's passing five years later.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
In today's dollars, Costello left just shy of $500k in a cab. Who does that? **************************************************************** "'I don't recall asking for your help!' Well, somebody had to finally say it!" I had the exact same thought. Also, Mary sounds like she took a cut-rate...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,048
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
A big kudos to Alexis Smith and Craig Stevens (the future super-cool TV's Peter Gunn) for this being the first and only marriage each and for it lasting until Smith's passing 49 years (!) later.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Reckless Moment from 1949 with Joan Bennett, James Mason, Geraldine Brooks and Frances E. Williams The Reckless Moment is a gem of a movie that masquerades as a crime drama, but is really a hard look at upper-middle-class, mid-century values as seen through the eyes of a desperate mother...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,514
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Thank you ⇧ . I know you've told me this before, but,clearly, I am confused. I thought the Eagle "hit the street" earlier than the Daily News, thus giving the News a little more time to get a late-breaking story - no?- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I love the Ginsboigs. They are salt of the freakin' earth. ******************************************************* The Daily News might be seeing the future, but it missed the flying bombs in the present - how did that not make the front page? Or being an afternoon paper, did it have the...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,033
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Heroes for Sale from 1933 with Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon and Loretta Young "Smash the machines!" Director William A. Wellman and Warner Bros. let their inner communist rip in Heroes for Sale, a precode Depression-era tale of cardboard-hero communists/socialists and...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,513
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"N. Gwendolyn Echo Cushing?" That's a good name and WTF one, but I know we've seen even crazier ones. Sadly, I didn't keep a list; I wish I had. We had one or two married countesses who had names that were in the "nine or ten names long" category. A couple of our society debs have had some...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Nora, they took harr to Bellevue." She'd be safer in the Tombs - no electroshock therapy. ************************************************************ "Hey, c'mon. How come Levant doesn't get his picture up there?" They want people to come...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
""You still got any copies a' t'at pitcheh we took?" "A couple," growls Mozelewski. "Y'loin fr'm ya mistakes." "Gimme one," commands Miss Kaplan. "I wanna send it t' -- somebody." "Who?" demands Mozelewski with a suspcious frown. "A friend inna soivice, Misteh Nosey," snaps Miss Kaplan. "T'boys...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
